Vista - BF2 issue

When entering choppers or aircraft i experience a drop in the frame rate,
from over 70 to 8 fps for about 30 secs, expecially when changing view mode,
from cockpit to external view. I have last ATI drivers, and vista ultimate
64bit, anyone else has the same problem ora, as usual, i'm the only one?

If you were able to run it fine on xp but it becomes choppy with large load times in the middle of the game, it's probably due to vista's higher memory usage. I had 1.5 gb of ram in my pc when it had xp installed, and it ran bf2 just fine. But when I upgraded to vista, that wasn't enough memory to run bf2, and I had large load time gaps in the middle of the game from loading from the hard drive, even though most game play was pretty smooth. I added another gb of ram to take it to 2.5gb and the problem went away.

> If you were able to run it fine on xp but it becomes choppy with large
> load times in the middle of the game, it's probably due to vista's
> higher memory usage. I had 1.5 gb of ram in my pc when it had xp
> installed, and it ran bf2 just fine. But when I upgraded to vista,
> that wasn't enough memory to run bf2, and I had large load time gaps in
> the middle of the game from loading from the hard drive, even though
> most game play was pretty smooth. I added another gb of ram to take it
> to 2.5gb and the problem went away.

My problem is that each time i enter into a chopper or an airplane, if i
stay with the cockpit view i have no problem, the game runs fine with high
framerate, but when i switch into "full-screen" view for the chooper or the
aircraft (the view of the videocamera mounted on the top of the vehicle) for
about 30 secs the framerate drops to 8 fps, and after that time framerate
returns to 70.

BUT if you run correctly BF2 on vista, maybe it's only a problem of mine.
Did you installed AMD Dual Core Optimizer, the new release of november? Wich
is your video-card? ATI or nVidia?

I have vista 64 on an x2-4600+. I did download the dual core optimizer. I have an ati x1900xt.

Can I ask how much ram you have?

"johnsmith" <johnsmith.2je903@no-mx.vista64.net> wrote in message
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> I have vista 64 on an x2-4600+. I did download the dual core optimizer.
> I have an ati x1900xt.
>
> Can I ask how much ram you have?

Of course, 2 GB, but i soled the problem .I use fraps and the last version
caused the problem above .Without fraps all works correctly. Many thanks for
your support, really...